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Originally Posted by Onlydo2days
I think Love gets dealt sooner than later. Cavs only keep their pick if it is top 10 next 2 years and they have so many bad contracts on the books they should just tank the next two years as even if they try they aren't close to a playoff team. Even in the loleast
I have a plan to turn the Cavs way around in 2 summers. Because of the above they have so much more incentive than any other team in the league to take on toxic 2 year contracts. And there are lots of them and no one wanting to trade for them.
So obviously you start with testing the market for Love trying to trade him ASAP, but potentially trying to leave it for the deadline after hopefully rehabbing his value some. You trade Nance and Korver now. They are cheap enough and help enough teams it should be easy.
Now you have to start getting more creative. You hit up the Magic and offer Clarkson and filler for Biyombo and assets. They need some off the dribble guard play and Biyombo is now 3rd on the depth chart. This also opens up playing time and time with the ball in his hands for Sexton for the Cavs.
Then you hit up Washington and trade Tristan for Mahinmi, Smith and assets. This both improves the Wizards and gives them badly needed space under the tax this summer.
Then you hit up the Thunder. From the Kyrie trade the Cavs have a trade exception that the Patrick Patterson contract fits into real nice. He’s gonna cost them like 20 million in real money next year and 5.5 in cap space the year after. You’d be able to stockpile some seconds for that.
Then you’re left with JR and Hill. Both make a ton this year, with small guarantees next year. With Hill you can keep till the deadline too and rehab his value. Maybe with the ball in his hands more and more time since injury he’ll look a lot better at the deadline. Anyways you survey the land. You see Parsons, as an obvious target to take back, if the Rockets think those 2 can contribute better to a playoff run you can save them some tax money this year and tons of money next year by figuring out a Randerson deal you consider that, and you can look at the Suns. The Suns seem delusional. They seem to want to go from crawling and drooling on themselves, to running this year. They also have a PG slot wide open and want cap space next summer. What kind of assets could you get back from them in a Knight for Hill trade? He also fits perfectly next to Booker and with a 1-4 switch heavy scheme. The Bucks have Delly and Henson on bad 2 year deals you hit them up. Maybe the Lakers don’t trade Deng for Kawhi and don’t stretch him either. Maybe the deadline comes around and you can get back something nice to take on Dengs money? If you don’t trade either Hill or Smith you’ll have the cap space from their small guarantees next summer to take on more **** salary anyways.
Now in 2 summers you have Sexton, at least 2 top 10 picks and all the assets from these moves and the cleanest cap space in the league. You can go a lot of different ways at that point.
Last edited by Moneyball16; 07-02-2018 at 12:54 AM.